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From: gatelist@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Submission for Unix-PC
Message-ID: <8912121017.AA05908@hp-lsd.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 10:17:47 GMT
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Regarding news-posting style & unix-pc.general:

Posters, please be aware that your postings to unix-pc.general are
regularly combined into a newsletter at host zorch by Scott Hazen 
Mueller and forwarded by email to a mailing list of readers who do not
have Usenet access to unix-pc.general.

Occasionally this newsletter is truncated in transit.  The cause seems
to be a postings with a line consisting solely of periods (commonly an
ellipsis, the three character string "...") from which one period gets
consumed by each intermediate SMTP(?) mailer.  If such a mailer sees
only one period on the line, the rest of the letter is truncated.

The simple solution appears to be a newletter filter, e.g. 
sed 's/^\./!./', at zorch.  But I think it's important that each poster,
to this and !other! newsgroups, recognize that their postings might be
transmitted in "digest"ed form, and be susceptable to the various mailer
bugs/features.

John R Ruckstuhl, Jr, ...!hplabs!hp-lsd!sphere!ruck